When an old lady is reported missing, her daughter and granddaughter rush to her house only to find her, along with a malevolent entity that also dwells in the house.
It all starts with Natalie Erika James’ and Christian White’s amazing script and ends with James’ exceptional directing. Charlie Sarroff’s claustrophobic cinematography will cut your breath short, and the hair-raising performances by Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, and Bella Heathcote will make you feel how they feel. Nevin, especially, makes one hell of a scary grandma that will crawl under your skin.
The film’s gut-wrenching psychological horror is the outcome of the fictional paranoia that directly derives from a real-life, agonising drama. It is the terror of what happens to so many people when they grow old while all of us wish that it is not us that it will happen to. And you would never guess who’s wearing the producer’s hat on this one: Jake Gyllenhaal and the Russo Brothers. Who would know?
Relic is a bone-chilling, metaphorical horror/drama that follows (thankfully) no Hollywood narrative, offers no easy way-outs, glorified, ephemeral pseudo-heroes, and cheap jump-scares. It is the proud representation of Australia’s film school, a school that teaches how to think outside the box and make films as harsh as life itself.
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We actually watched this one last night. I really enjoyed it.
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